Motion Compensated Extreme MRI: Multi-Scale Low Rank Reconstructions for Highly Accelerated 3D Dynamic Acquisitions (MoCo-MSLR)

TL;DR

This paper introduces MoCo-MSLR, a novel motion compensation method for Extreme MRI that enhances image quality and captures detailed cardiac and respiratory motion in highly accelerated 3D dynamic MRI reconstructions.

Contribution

It presents a multi-scale low rank approach to efficiently estimate and incorporate motion fields into Extreme MRI, enabling higher spatiotemporal resolution reconstructions.

Findings

Improved image quality at ~500ms temporal resolution.

Captured bulk motion not seen in previous methods.

Resolved cardiac dynamics at near 100ms resolution.

Abstract

Purpose: To improve upon Extreme MRI, a recently proposed method by Ong Et al. for reconstructing high spatiotemporal resolution, 3D non-Cartesian acquisitions by incorporating motion compensation into these reconstructions using an approach termed MoCo-MSLR. Methods: Motion compensation is challenging to incorporate into high spatiotemporal resolution reconstruction due to the memory footprint of the motion fields and the potential to lose dynamics by relying on an initial high temporal resolution, low spatial resolution reconstruction. Motivated by the work of Ong Et al. and Huttinga Et al., we estimate low spatial resolution motion fields through a loss enforced in k-space and represent these motion fields in a memory efficient manner using multi-scale low rank components. We interpolate these motion fields to the desired spatial resolution, and then incorporate these fields into Extreme MRI. Results: MoCo-MSLR was able to improve image quality for reconstructions around 500ms temporal resolution and capture bulk motion not seen in Extreme MRI. Further, MoCo-MSLR was able to resolve realistic cardiac dynamics at near 100ms temporal resolution while Extreme MRI struggled to resolve these dynamics. Conclusion: MoCo-MSLR improved image quality over Extreme MRI and was able to resolve both respiratory and cardiac motion in 3D.